I'm pleased to announce that the Skylight Documentation is now publicly available on GitHub [https://github.com/skylightio/skylight-docs]. It was always available to be read at docs.skylight.io [https://docs.skylight.io], but now the whole repository is public. To be clear, we don'…
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax, the focus on developer productivity…
tl;dr: When your credit card number or expiration date changes, in many cases, we can update them for your automatically! Credit cards are great. They're quick and easy for the customer and pretty darn nice for the seller (us!) as well. That said, getting issued a new…
OAuth can be easy to implement, but easy is in the eye of the beholder. This beholder will define it as leaning on a well-supported OAuth library and a simple user authentication flow. We just wrapped up our first wave of GitHub integration with Skylight and while we did…
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” I beg to differ with Shakespeare here - I don’t think any flower would be terribly happy to be called “stinkbud” or “garbageblossom.” Names matter! Warning: several years-old Doctor…
If you've been paying attention, you're probably aware that Rails 5.0.0-beta1 has been released [http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/12/18/Rails-5-0-beta1/]. You may be wondering if Skylight works with it. The answer is yes! For the last year, as…
I took some time off in October to visit my friends and family in Hong Kong. When I returned from my vacation, I was very excited to see that we had shipped our new design for the endpoints page. If you haven't seen it yet, go ahead and…
Even if your Rails app is humming along just fine most of the time, your users probably still occasionally experience painfully slow requests seemingly at random. While unexplained slowdowns can happen for many reasons, the most common root cause is excessive object allocations. Here's the good news: there&…
Ever since we launched Skylight for Rails and Sinatra apps, we've been getting requests for Grape support. Today we are pleased to announce that Grape is supported in the latest 0.8.0 version of the Skylight gem [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight]! If you haven't…
Some of the best ways to make your Rails app faster are dead-simple and quite often missed. The tragic part is that many of these problems come up over and over again and can be fixed quickly and incrementally. And the benefits of each of these improvements can be…
